Sales Executive, Media & Sponsorships

Thomson Reuters; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible work arrangements

Career development

Comprehensive benefits

Volunteer days

ESG initiatives

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Sales Executive, Media & Sponsorships to drive advertising and sponsorship revenues across Southeast Asia. The role focuses on hunting new accounts while maintaining strong client relationships, with hybrid work flexibility.

Responsibilities include identifying prospects, product demos, negotiations and closing contracts, and collaborating with editorial and events teams to ensure timely fulfilment and growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of advertising and sponsorship sales experience.
• Total work experience of 6+ years.
• Results driven and customer focused.
• Attention to detail and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed monthly/annual advertising and sponsorship revenue targets.
• Collaborate with publishing and events teams to secure revenue.
• Provide high level of customer service to clients.
• Generate new business by identifying and contacting potential clients.
• Work with editorial, events and management teams to improve offerings.

Skills

Advertising sales

Sponsorship sales

Cold calling

Customer focus

Attention to detail

Initiative

English fluency

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Job Description

At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.

The Sales Executive, Media & Sponsorships is responsible for the sale of print and online advertising and securing event sponsorship to accounts in Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Sales Executive will grow sales by identifying potential new accounts, cold calling prospective customers, conducting face to face meetings, providing product demonstrations, negotiating and closing contracts. This is primarily a Hunting role, but the role is also responsible for building and maintaining its client relationships.

Key Responsibilities

In this opportunity as a Sales Executive, Media & Sponsorships, you will:

• To attain monthly and annual advertising and sponsorship revenue targets working individually and within the sales team to meet and exceed all assigned sales targets
• Working with publishing and events team to secure revenue in timely manner
• Deliver a high level of customer service to existing and new clients
• Generate new business by identifying, contacting and proposing relevant marketing solution to new clients
• Working closely with the editorial, event and management teams to consistently improve product and service offerings, and to ensure that fulfilments are delivered timely
• Provide timely, accurate and informative reports to senior management;
• Manage pipeline to ensure an adequate number of leads are identified for short and long term sales objectives

Required Qualifications

You’re a fit for the role of Sales Executive, Media & Sponsorships if you have the following required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline
• At least 3 years of successful advertising and sponsorship sales experience. 6+ years of total work experience.
• Results driven and customer focused
• Attention to detail
• Innovative and able to work on own initiative

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent in English
• Effective communication skills

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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